PVL: No room to relax for the Angels

By Mark Escarlote on Jul 17, 2019 07:21 AM

PetroGazz has enough motivation come the Premier Volleyball League Season 3 Open Conference next month.

Fresh off a breakthrough championship that saw the second-year team topple the favored and star-studded Creamline Cool Smashers, the Angels are out to prove their doubters wrong.

PetroGazz is for real, that Reinforced Conference conquest is no fluke.

"There’s a lot of bashers nga (na nanalo lang kami) because of the imports," said Angels coach Arnold Laniog on Tuesday during the squad's victory celebration at Kamayan-EDSA.

Laniog addressed that from the moment they pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the league - a come-from-behind, best-of-three Finals victory over the dethroned Cool Smashers - some thought that PetroGazz relied too much on their high-scoring imports Wilma Salas of Cuba and American Janisa Johnson.

Salas was named Best Import while Johnson got the Finals Most Valuable Player award.

Laniog wants his wards to use those criticisms to fuel their drive in the season-ending all-Filipino conference starting August 11.